Food Donations Are Not Keeping up with Need, Says Trussell

Food donations are not keeping up with need, says Trussell

NEARLY three million food parcels were handed out by the foodbank charity Trussell in the year to March — almost one million more than five years previously. Figures released by the charity on Wednesday of last week show that one million of the 2....

Kent Food Bank Use Soars 230% as Trussell Trust Warns of Deepening Hunger Crisis

In a quiet but relentless surge, food banks have become a fixture in communities across Kent. What was once considered emergency aid has, over a decade of austerity and economic turbulence, hardened into routine. The latest data from the Trussell Trust—Britain’s largest food bank network—confirms what many frontline workers have long feared: the crisis is no longer temporary. It’s structural. A detailed analysis of food parcel distribution betwe…